If you live in the south and have ripened a large grape harvest by autumn or you just want to diversify your sweet
homemade preparations for the winter, then grape jam with pits is exactly what you need to try to cook. Very tasty and fragrant, it is perfect for tea and for filling open cakes. By the way, when cooking, the berries remain intact. Take one of our recipes as a basis and get down to business.
Grape jam with pits
For harvesting, black or white grapes are best. For 1 kilogram of berries you will need:
- 1 glass of water;
- 1.2 kg of granulated sugar;
- some vanilla as desired.
Wash the berries, clear of possible debris and blanch (boil in boiling water) for a couple of minutes. After pull out with a slotted spoon and refrigerate.
During this time, prepare sugar syrup, which will need to pour the berries and boil them over medium heat for about 20 minutes. That's not all - remove the pot from the stove and let the jam stand for at least 8 hours (you can leave it overnight). After boiling it again on the stove for 40 minutes. Now separate the berries from the liquid, put them in jars, and boil the remaining syrup again for a quarter of an hour. At this point, you can add a little bit of vanillin to it. Pour the syrup over the berries. Done - grape jam with seeds can be covered with lids and cleaned in a dark place until cold. Of course, there is a lot of trouble with such a preparation, but as a result you will get a delicate, fragrant delicacy, which will be so handy for tea on long winter evenings.
Grapes with pits with spices and almonds
The recipe for this blank will be difficult for you to keep secret. All your friends, having tried this jam, will surely ask you to share the intricacies of the preparation and the bizarre composition of the ingredients. Actually, here they are, take:
- 1.2 kg of green grapes;
- 600 gr Sahara;
- 1 cup grape juice;
- 100 gr. peeled almonds;
- some cinnamon and 2 anise stars.
This winter grape jam is prepared in a very unusual way - it is not cooked, but languishes in the oven. First, wash the berries, sprinkle with granulated sugar, pour juice and sprinkle with spices, then put the mass on a baking sheet and put in the oven, heated to 150 degrees, for 3 hours. Remember to stir occasionally. Meanwhile, pour the almonds with boiling water, let stand for a couple of minutes, and then peel and add to the grapes an hour before the end of languishing. After the allotted time (three hours), remove the pan from the oven, remove the anise stars and cinnamon sticks from the berry mass (if you took the sticks, not the powder), pack the jam in sterilized jars, cool, then roll the lids. Be sure, such a blank will not leave anyone indifferent. Now you know
how to make grape
jam . Although its preparation takes quite a lot of time compared to the preservation of other berries, the taste of such a workpiece is very delicate. Moreover, for cooking you can take various
grapes and make your winter stocks even more diverse.